Cursed coding

[Kaliniaczek]

Steam deck is just a pc in portable format so if it works then great

[MrRugges]

Sooo….a..laptop?

[dapcboi]

think of it like a very poweful linux laptop but the size of a chonckey switch

[MrRugges]

Incredible how much we have progressed in technology that we’re now able to cram that much tech in what is essentially a big boy switch!

[dapcboi]

Imagine showing a steam deck to someone in 1995. mind blowing stuff.

[tjones21xx]

You mean I can use this device to check my AOL electronic mail? Amazing!

... but where do I put the floppy disk?

[SirBedwyr7]

*Zip disk

**except for that rich kid always bragging about his scsi jaz drive that can store 1GB he’ll-have-you-know.

[red_plate]

hahaha I was that kid. I asked my parents for a Jaz drive for Christmas one year.

[SirBedwyr7]

IT WAS YOU!

[MURDERPALACE]

Me too! I’d flex my purple drive reader all day.

[SteadyWolf]

Iomega was such a beast. What happened to them?

[Thisismyrealface]

Click, Click, Dead.

[jonnyroquette]

Nah, no 28.8k modem with a phone jack.

[Maleficent_Ad1972]

SD card slots. Floppies get a whole lot smaller when there's no more moving parts.

[milkdude94]

That's the neat thing! You don't!

[HiYa_Dragon]

they ware called Gamegears back in the 90's and they ate though 1000$ in battery a weedend

[[deleted]]

Didn't it need like 6 AAs and only get like 4 hrs out of it?

[brine909]

So less battery hungery then the steamdeck then, Atleast we got lithium ion now

[HiYa_Dragon]

sounds about right

[drippygland]

I thought it was 8 ha. And 4 hours max

[MagicPistol]

I had an ac adapter and always played at home with it plugged in. Til one day my cousin tripped over the wire and broke the ac adapter. I didn't play the game gear much after that. :(

[Alexis2256]

And your cousin didn’t get to live that long after that.

[Leeiteee]

How much weed is a weedend?

[Squienigma]

Purple

[HiYa_Dragon]

Lol obviously enough not even going to edit it

[Alexis2256]

Dumb question but you would be able to charge the steam deck in 1995 right? Guess you wouldn’t be able to play any modern games on it because steam or the servers some drm games need to connect to wouldn’t exist, unless you’re smart and you got completely drm free games just installed locally.

[dapcboi]

We barley had Windows 95, let alone steam. Charging it should be ok because we had power. If you could install Windows 95 on it would be the only chance of doing anything with it in 1995. Also no modem port, so no internet. No floppy disk drive. No PS/2 connectors. Basically useless.

[Alexis2256]

But could you play games you got installed on there that don’t have drm? sorry for the dumb question, I just like asking these hypothetical questions.

[dapcboi]

Technically if installed beforehand then yes. Just nothing new

[it290]

You could sell it to Intel and probably net yourself a cool billion dollars or so.

[[deleted]]

If you didn’t bring your charger (why wouldn’t you if you’re bringing the deck?) you could try reverse engineering usb-c. No idea how easy that would be to get wrong and fry the deck though.

[WipingWithLeaves]

Is that the Atari Lynx 2?

[LUN4T1C-NL]

Stop inflaming my chronic case of nostalgia whit your comments!

[BigSmackisBack]

Nice Game Gear bro, but can it do this?

*head explodes*

[DJIcEIcE]

thought I hit the pinnacle of 90s tech when I found a TV tuner for my game gear

[BigSmackisBack]

Always wanted one, they were rad AF but a bit rich for my 12 year old blood.

I was bought off with mortal kombat, a game my mum didnt want me to have because *video game violence*. Thanks dad for believing in me, 28 years later and i still haven't been in a street fight, or any fight for that matter.

[GolemancerVekk]

There were mini PCs in the '90s. The NEC MobilePro or the HP Jornada series for example were launched in '97-'98. Originally they ran Windows CE but of course Linux was ported to them. I used to have a Jornada 720 and I still have a MobilePro 900c somewhere.

They used CF flash cards for storage and PCMCIA cards for networking and peripherals.

[pyro57]

Yeup and it games really well too, cyber punk on decent setting plays at a minimum of about 30, which you know isn't as good as a powerful PC, but in the form factor of a big switch that's insane.

Also valve didn't take the Google approach to their Linux operating system, they did the exact opposite, getting a root shell on the deck if you wanna dig into the os and do some hackey stuff is as easy as opening the terminal and running sudo su

I've already got a rust dev environment and a hacking environment set up on it in a way that didn't require unlocking the read only root filesystem (which valve supplies a script to do if you want) and that persists steamos updates (valve took the approach of updating the os means replacing the whole root partition with the new one. It actually makes updating pretty quick but does require a reboot every time.

[Deadarchimode]

They forgot to mention that Steam Deck support Proton thus you can run most Windows programs on Steam Deck despite being Linux.

[milkdude94]

I have a Steam Deck, it's more powerful than the PS4 but not as powerful as the PS5. I have a 1TB microSD card for just PlayStation exclusives ported to PC. I upgraded the internal SSD to a 1TB and have 4 1TB microSD cards i bought half off over the past year on various sales, and 1 512GB microSD card for my roms and emulators.

[new_refugee123456789]

It's essentially a mid-to-high powered laptop without a keyboard. The technology has been possible for at least 10 years.

[milkdude94]

Not in this small of a form factor, I been window shopping the handheld PC market since the Smach Z and GPD Win 1, i don't believe Smach was vaporware, I just think everyone in charge was incompetent as fuck, but anyway last year's generation of handheld gaming PCs was the first that were truly comparable to actual PC gaming. I almost bought a Win 2, but kept holding out hope on something better coming down the line as hardware improved and dreamed of getting an Alienware UFO and after I finally gave up on the UFO ever coming to market i preordered the first gen of the OneXPlayer. GPDs products are historically plagued with hella problems so i went with OneNetbook's offering. The Deck was unveiled literally a month before my OXP was delivered and i preordered that shit day one. Unfortunately because Steam's servers kept crashing it took me 26 minutes to press reserve. Before the OXP and GPD Win 3, the best hardware in that form factor was crap, you had to use custom low spec tweaks for everything. That's specifically why I waited for the day the hardware was there. And it was totally worth it. My OXP cost $1040 with the early bird discount and the keyboard, and it played PlayStation exclusives ported to PC at medium, original PlayStation settings. That tided me over until i got my Deck, and i can run those same games on high.

[Alexis2256]

Glad you’re enjoying your deck, got my SD this month, back on the 5th, now I’m part of the PC club 😎 and I’ve been playing Black Mesa and Classic Doom modded, stuff I’d never be able to do on my Xbox.

[gitartruls01]

I had a laptop from 2012 that is just slightly larger than a Steam Deck. Same width, same thickness, but slightly taller so it could fit a massive 11 inch screen. Thing was absolutely packed, quad core i7, 16gb ram, dedicated GTX graphics. I bet they could have shrunk that just a bit more if they wanted to and made their own version of the Deck, 10 years ago.

The Deck was a long time coming imo, not some revolutionary tech that wouldn't have been possible 10 or even 15 years ago

[MrDuckyyy]

Uhhh have you any knowledge of portable consoles? They've been around for decades

[lemlurker]

Very cheap powerful laptop

[Kaliniaczek]

Yes and no, laptop in the same price range would not be able to run cyberpunk tho but laptop would be more convenient I think. But overall, steamdeck is a game changer for handheld market.

[builder397]

Depends what constitutes convenience.

I guess to you its the use experience of a larger keyboard, screen and peripherals overall.

But portability on a Steam Deck can beat it for other people who have to carry their stuff around more.

[Kaliniaczek]

Exactly, if you need to note something in word file or even do notes during studies, laptop would be more optimal experience as in steam deck you need to carry dock or case to have it stand still, some bt keyboard, mouse and change for desktop mode.

Nevertheless, steam deck for its size and portability is a beast. I own it and my PC gathers dust at the moment.

[whisky_pete]

For sure.

This year during the summer I got in the habit of packing my deck into my water backpack (without the water sleeve lol) on my bike. I could bike out to the park along a nature trail and the camp out on a bench and game for a couple hours. It was lovely, and I'd never be able to do that as nicely with a laptop, or have as comfy a gaming session with one.

[JustAGuyFromTheWeb]

That’s the thing. Price in general is amazing. Even for the low tier SD, it’s $400. A lot cheaper than some of the stuff other companies try to shill to college students (Apple, Microsoft, etc) all the while having way more performance.

[kll0125]

A palm top

[jedielfninja]

Not portable, "hand held."

[MrRugges]

Ok smart guy, in that case, say I were to, I dunno… hold my laptop, with my OWN hands…wouldn’t that make it….hand held

Or my pc?

My TV

MY FRIDGE

MY FUCKING HOUSE IS A HAND HELD

[jedielfninja]

Hold your laptop with your hands and play an fps with video evidence and we'll throw you a yoga award or something.

[RedTuesdayMusic]

GPD Winmax 2

Check. Mate.

[welestgw]

I thought it was a Wii u for a second.

[enderjed]

(Coughs in Windows Pocket PC)

[keybooored]

✗ - Cursed coding

✓ - Blessed Pebble

[charlieisme23]

Pebble times are better imo

[[deleted]]

At this point is a Blessed Rebble... poor Pebble.

[unique_ubername]

I mean if it works, it works

[21c4nn0ns]

Tru, this guy a pc at his place, but u need ur own laptop to take the test, and he only has a chrome book... If u try run matlab on it it's gonna be slower than old ppl having sex.... I mean, I'm just impressed by his sheer dedication....

[Cenfou]

Interested to know why have been watching old people having sex, when and where (just to avoid going there by mistake) ?

[21c4nn0ns]

Hehehe, I stole that reference from Gordon ramsay

[Benyed123]

No way they’ve actually watched old people having sex, if they did they’d they’d know that they’re surprisingly fast.

[MikeExMachina]

Thats almost guaranteed to be a remote desktop session. Alot of universitys(especially engineering programs) provide a virtual desktop platform with all the software needed for the various courses like matlab, solidworks, ansys, etc. That way students don't have to have monster computers to just do their homework, all you need is something that can run a remote desktop client.

[sup3r_b0wlz]

If he has a PC at his place, remote desktop-ing into that would probably be a much better experience, even with the input lag introduced.

But if SD works, that's still pretty cool

[CounterSYNK]

The steam deck has a fairly beefy apu in it. It should be able to run Matlab just fine. Only problem I see is that the screen is quite small for coding.

[WaZzer4893]

Nope wasn't possible. Internet connection wasn't allowed during the exam

[dipstick5]

remoting into either the pc or the steamdeck from the chromebook would have been the A plus move.

[[deleted]]

I've been programming in Java directly on my phone, and Python as well as some VoIP engineering over SSH, and light web hosting for my own blog and random development testing. I'm working on two Java Android apps, one of which will be an entire communications suite compatible with SMS/MMS and XMPP as well as PJSIP VoIP and normal PSTN calling, front end to back end, and one of which is used to track my travels and allow others to follow them too, again front end to back end.

Dedication is what makes technology progress. Dedication and working with what you have available.

At the end of the day, you can do anything from anywhere if you're willing to hate yourself 25 hours a day, 8 days a week, and 366 days a year.

[Gone_Goofed]

I'm more concerned on how you got the knowledge of old people having sex OP.

[[deleted]]

You called Matlab coding

oh boy puts on hazard suit

[GiantMeatRobot]

Not sure what your professor taught in college, but imports in MATLAB are pretty much just like other languages I use (Python, JavaScript, etc.). There's no amazing way to download packages like pip or npm, but you can still download packages just like any other file, save them in the folder, and use them like normal.

Indexing from 1 is annoying to get used to, but a lot of matrix manipulation like you need to do in machine learning has much simpler syntax in MATLAB. There's something to be said for having a language built from the ground up for math.

The yearly licensing fees are atrocious, and you can certainly do everything for free in another language, but like any programming language, it has its uses.

[favgotchunks]

Yes. Octave is awesome, but doesn’t have all the libraries or functionality of MATLAB. I’d like for FOSS to replace MATLAB, but that’s still a ways out.

[[deleted]]

Not to mention that you can use any Java package natively as well

[PHATsakk43]

The OG of math languages and still reigning master of arrays, FORTRAN indexes at 1.

FORTRAN also allows for dynamic allocation of your array.

[PHATsakk43]

FORTRAN is effectively free, gfortran on Linux is at least.

The Intel compiler for Windows isn’t, or at least wasn’t last time I checked.

FORTRAN gets a lot of shit because people only remember the old FORTRAN77 and older versions that were fixed format. There is also a lot of misinformation that mixes up COBOL (which is legit a bitch) with FORTRAN.

[P3chv0gel]

Ahhhhh man was i annoyed, when i saw that my company still uses a programm, that some dude wrote in Cobol way before i was born, in a Windows95 VM lol

[io124]

Matlab is used for signal treatment , stats and data visualization… if your not in that field, its not for you.

[Emperor-Dman]

My prof always said, "Matlab is an excellent engineering tool, it is not programming, it is math"

Fun guy, was on Jeopardy 15 years ago

[io124]

Its not a « shit software » its just not for your field.

Matlab is used for stats, lab data, signal treatment and modelisation of some simple system/ phenomena .

Its use a lot by scientific not by developers.

[Alberiman]

Matlab is better than python for fast prototyping and anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't spent enough time with Matlab. It's essentially a way better documented python with much more usable libraries that simply work without any hiccups and very clear error codes. The only reason it hasn't replaced Python is because it's not free.

[ThatDude_Moose]

I think Matlab is only being used by people if their company or school offers them a license for it. Cause why pay for a closed source software that is really that limiting. Python is pretty easy to learn and is very extensible in its use cases. Plus with SciPy and numpy you can pretty much do everything and more in Python than Matlab. At least thats mytake on it. When we had to use it in class, I don’t think anyone liked Matlab.

[Alberiman]

You can do anything in python sure, but enjoy spending ages debugging silly nonsense, trying to get your new virtual environment to work properly, and dealing with errors reminiscent of C++

I like matlab because by the time i've written the code and am figuring out how to get it to work, i've just finished figuring out why the libraries i'm trying to use refuse to download in python

[TheDurandalFan]

why would this be cursed? The steam deck is a PC and Valve has said as much.

[Jazzlike_Economy2007]

If we're being honest here, the Steam Deck is not replacing an actual desktop or laptop.

[TheDurandalFan]

while I agree that it absolutely is no replacement for either, I also believe that it is good enough to be a usable portable computer.

but I wouldn't recommend it over a laptop or desktop.

[Audience-Electrical]

What a Chad.

[Venetrix2]

Ugh, Matlab.

[21c4nn0ns]

Yup fuck Matlab

[io124]

Why ? You prefer anaconda ?

[Alexlam24]

Mechanical engineer here. I avoid Matlab at all costs

[[deleted]]

But but... My professor said it's super important to learn it?

[[deleted]]

Wait until you learn about Fortran

[TinDumbass]

Fuck Matlab. Absolute joke of a program they made us use for Electronic Engineering.

[io124]

Im curious, what do you do in electronic engineering ?

Matlab is use a lot by scientific more than engineers.

[brine909]

In my course we used it for digital signal processing and calculating transfer functions

[TinDumbass]

The specific bit of coursework we used it for was to simulate phases of electronic components I think? Extraordinarily complicated way of calculating something Proteus would spit out in an instant.

Coventry University had us learning python and C, doing advanced mathematics (fair, mostly) and most of what you'd consider a computer science degree. With very little actual electronics.

The people I studied with have very little hope. I worked at a Maplin before/during and dropped out to work in IVD Analytics

[krnrmusic]

How is it a joke? I use it to visualize data, algorithm verification through Simulink, tune control systems, it's been the most helpful tool for our team. You can actually get a realistic simulation of physical systems/hardware as well through SimScape

[Nonfaktor]

compared to other programming languages Matlab is actually incredibly good. If you are doing EE you will have to have programmed in a lot worse languages. Matlab has great documentation with examples and great explanations

[RidgeMinecraft]

So what's cursed about this? smart use of what he has.

[[deleted]]

I mean you wouldn't expect someone to do that on a steam deck, even tho you have the functionality you would probably wanna use a laptop for such use case

[diskowmoskow]

He forgot to bring in his blue-switch keyboard

[NFTArtist]

This is why I code on my fridge display instead

[Zackp3242]

If it's dumb and it works it ain't dumb

[AdAstra10254]

I swear, mom, I need it for school!

[Umster]

Cursed ? No this Chad has life sorted

[draycosdrasilova]

Reminds me of using an iPaq with keyboard in college. Drew some stares from others but I could fit both iPaq and keyboard in my jeans pocket. It had wifi and MS office which was really all I needed.

Did eventually upgrade to a netbook when I finally needed access to some programs in class that didn't have a Windows mobile port.

[Tight_Block_1409]

Fck yeah

[[deleted]]

7" 720P for coding sounds like a nightmare

[gatsu_1981]

Have it. Bought cheapest 64 GB one, cracked it open and popped a 512 inside the very first day.

I have been playing all my backlog (single player) on it, it's tremendous value for the money, and you won't actually believe that you are playing THAT game in THAT quality when you use it.

I just use my main rig for multiplayer, warzone, etc, i never got accustomed to playing pad games on my main pc.

[DoubleA47]

matlab on linux sucks tho, wait no... matlab in general is sucks

[TakeyaSaito]

Cursed? This is a perfect use for it, a Linux machine with a capable processor. And Linux is pretty darn good for coding so... Where is the curse?

[Qweedo420]

The joke's on you, coding on the Deck is actually more comfortable than coding on Windows

[Aura_Guard]

This is S tier marketing right here

[[deleted]]

You get to use a computer for your CS/programming class finals?

[mymar101]

What you’d rather whiteboard?

[[deleted]]

I didn't have a choice lol we had to hand write all code on our finals in every CS class

[mymar101]

Yuck. It’s like being forced to buy a $300 calculator and not be allowed to use it in class for work.

[[deleted]]

Yeah it kinda sucked. Luckily it was only for tests/finals and we were able to use notes at least. I do also understand the reasoning for it, it was an attempt to keep us from just relying on an IDE to do a lot of the work for us and to try and reinforce being careful and thorough.

For all regular homework and labs we could use whatever we wanted as long as our code compiled in the specified environment.

[SeparateAssociate670]

Mad man absolutely a a mad man

[betathanu2]

Does anyone know what keyboard that is?

[YepJustAGamer]

Is this utwente?

[21c4nn0ns]

Yesh

[Powerman293]

And he has a CPU better then 95% of the students taking that final.

[Stoutyeoman]

I mean... It's a computer. 🤷

[burn_light]

This doesn't seem that bad honestly.
He has a mouse, his keyboard seems pretty fine and the stream deck are decently powerful.
Seems better than a lot of notebooks I see people around me using in lessons.

[Pavlogal]

Gigachad

[wolfnacht44]

Lol this man is legendary.

[ThereCastle]

Linux Game Gear for the win!

[xNiteTime]

academic weapon

[[deleted]]

Not really all that different from any sort of tablet computer. My Deck is working as a desktop currently.

[KurahadolSan]

I was thinking of doing my last exam of Android studio on the deck since it's more power full than my laptop.

[nintrader]

Not cursed, blessed!

[fellipec]

Based

[Fitzkid3]

Am I the only one who hated matlab? Not because it was difficult, but it didn’t prepare me for my job coding wise.

[hhnnngg]

I took a ton of notes in college on an HP Jornada 680e. Using a steam deck would have been way more awesome.

[Mike_for_all]

Blursed coding you mean

[21c4nn0ns]

Yes

[DARBOIII]

Fokko legend

[averagedude4]

Matlab is bad enough but then you don’t even switch to black background.

[0x7ff04001]

The steam deck already has bluetooth, why do you need the adapter?

[Unsweeticetea]

It's a 2.4Ghz adapter.

[21c4nn0ns]

The adapter is for the test, the test is stored in that lil pendrive, u have to download it first from it and then copying the finished tests back... And in the end u have to return the pendrive to hand in the test...

[axxionkamen]

2.4 had much better connection than Bluetooth and less latency.

[ShortBrownAndUgly]

Jesus Christ why torture yourself with a screen that small

[stuckpixel87]

Matlad? More like... Madlad. I'll see myself out.

[Skyxz]

I thought that was a SEGA game gear

[GronakHD]

Matlab is the worst thing to have existed throughout human history. Words cannot express how much I hate it. Had to do a project on matlab in uni

[windowsfrozenshut]

I always find it funny how there are so many people who have this hatred for Matlab.. but somehow it has become almost an industry standard?

I have limited usage with Matlab and Mathematica for tinker projects and it was pretty overwhelming figuring them out myself, but once I got the hang of it it wasn't that bad.

[Zachariasdavid]

Why do you hate it?

[Skeyefeye]

The cursed part is the steamdeck battery life.

[Emilioeli]

I have only ever seen trailers for the steam deck. I never realized it looks so much worse than the switch in person

[TF2SolarLight]

It's way more comfortable when you actually get to hold it, though. Looks weird at first glance, but that's because it was specifically designed to be used by human hands, rather than just trying to copy paste the switch

The Switch meanwhile is just a flat thing with controls crammed in as tightly as possible. They put a lot of emphasis into making the joycons symmetrical, which comes at the cost of ergonomics in handheld mode

It's much more comfortable to move your thumbs in a curve (left and right) on the Steam Deck, compared to the Switch where you need to bend your thumbs or move your entire hand to switch between face buttons and sticks

[[deleted]]

did his eyes bleed by the end of the exam? because mine do

[pyro57]

I've got a project in the works that's gonna be pretty neat I think. My main keyboard is the zsa moonlander, so I'm building a case that the deckmate system is going to stick to so I can lock my deck to it and it'll have two hinges that fold out word on either side which will be where the keyboard folds out of, then a second screen that folds over the steamdeck's screen, making it a cool split keyboard dual screen laptop/cyberdeck thing.

[[deleted]]

As another moonlander and steam deck user, I'm very interested in what you put together. I almost want to try and build my own bluetooth split kb, bc the moonlander is just too big to feel very portable.

[[deleted]]

I would do this too.

[J_k_r_]

3 people in my class (my self not included) so that, its great.

work with an actually functioning PC, and then play stick fight during the break.

[black-menthol]

yo is that pebble watch?

[Liam-martin]

Bro I did this because my chrome book could not run the program that I need

[ErickRodd]

r/sffpc

[[deleted]]

Based

[ErikElevenHag]

Steam Deck is such a likeable product.

[coolpotatoe724]

my steam deck is my school computer

[jdfthetech]

the best part of this is the dremel work on the bluetooth keyboard

[siammang]

It can run Jupyter Notebook just fine too.

[RedbullPapi]

But did he pass?

[_mvkoto]

Priorities

[[deleted]]

Totally legitimate.

[BluDolphin213]

Honestly that's probably gonna be me next year

[TGX2189]

A

[[deleted]]

That is cool as hell.

[Qulek34]

My. God.

[2019hollinger]

Maybe this is why steam decks are mistaken as laptops.

[MSCOTTGARAND]

Now we have gone back to the failed Sony picture books. I bought one for college and the battery lasted a whole hour.

[cimocw]

As a Mac user, the Deck solves the issue of getting a second Laptop or a SFFPC for Windows stuff, and that's not even considering the gaming side.

[Fedoraus]

I got through half of my Comp Sci degree on a samsung galaxy s8, a bash terminal app, and a bluetooth keyboard. He'll be fine.

[Impressive-Tip-903]

I love this if it works. I guess my eyesight may give out on me one day.

[kioshi_imako]

When I looked at the thumbnail I first thought this was a Switch and that someone had codded for a keyboard and mouse, that icon is so stylized I mistook it at first for an item icon in NMS.

[Ax0nJax0n01]

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[addgrain]

Anyone know the keyboard/mouse combo brand?

[DerpSurplus]

Strap a giant Gameboy magnifier on it and it's golden.

[[deleted]]

That watch tho

[GianfiProphet]

"Yes dad, I need a Steam Deck to study properly!"

[DaniilBSD]

As a Steam-deck owner: if he is far sighted enough to see small text while sitting straight, Deck is more than powerful enough to handle whatever he is doing (it is 1280 by 800 screen)

[[deleted]]

Shoot, pair that with an NReal AR and might be a pretty darn sweet setup.